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1. What is the next number in the series: 5,863; 539; 55; 11? 2. What connects centre, food and visitor? 3. Which 2018 British Winter Olympian may train GIDDY RAVEN? 4. Which is the odd one out: Nadine Gordimer, Laurens van der Post, Ezra Pound, JM Coetzee? 5. Which three-letter word completes the following longer words: ---ly, pa---a, ---send, demi---?